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Unit of Study BUSN1007 - The Interconnected World (2024)

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Unit description

This unit introduces students to the existence of other ways of thinking and being outside their own experience of the world through their culture, environment, and politics. By utilising teaching and learning techniques of collaboration, curiosity, negotiation, communication, and critical thinking, students will work together to explore, understand, and reconsider the global business world in which we transact.

Unit content

  1. Cultural norms and awareness
  2. Different national and cultural business systems
  3. Global economics
  4. Global geo-political influences on businesses
  5. Global supply chains
  6. Global sustainability systems

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

discover new perspectives on global business systems

demonstrate an understanding of critical appraisal and self-reflection

apply problem solving skills collaboratively to multi-faceted issues.

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